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Katie Byl

Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
UC Santa Barbara
Phone:
+1 805-893-4924
Email:
katiebyl@ece.ucsb.edu
Office:
Harold Frank Hall, Rm. 5115
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Robot locomotion and manipulation; dynamics and control for autonomous systems; modeling, estimation, and optimization of reliability for stochastic systems. Current projects include legged robots and flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles.

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ICB Supported Publications

Quantifying and Optimizing Robustness of Bipedal Walking Gaits on Rough Terrain

Cenk Oguz Saglam and Katie Byl
Robotics Research, Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics 3,
10.1007/978-3-319-60916-4_14

Meshing hybrid zero dynamics for rough terrain walking

C. O. Saglam and K. Byl
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,

Metastable legged locomotion: Methods to quantify and optimize reliability

C. O. Saglam and K. Byl
Proceedings of SPIE 9467 - Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, and Applications VII, 94671T,
10.1117/12.2177102

Metastable Markov chains

C. O. Saglam and K. Byl
Proceedings of the 53rd 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,

Toward agile control of a exible-spine model for quadruped bounding

K. Byl, B. Satzinger, T. Strizic, P. Terrya, and J. Pusey
Unmanned Systems Technology XVII,
10.1117/12.2177432

Lyapunov-based versus Poincare map analysis of the rimless wheel

C. O. Saglam, A. R. Teel, and K. Byl
Proceedings of the 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
10.1109/CDC.2014.7039614

Quantifying the trade-offs between stability versus energy use for underactuated biped walking

C. O. Saglam and K. Byl
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,
10.1109/IROS.2014.6942910

Robust policies via meshing for metastable rough terrain walking

C. O. Saglam and K. Byl
Proceedings of 2014 Robotics: Science and Systems,

Switching policies for metastable walking

C. O. Saglam and K. Byl
Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
10.1109/CDC.2013.6760009

Stability and gait transition of the five-link biped on stochastically rough terrain using a discrete set of sliding mode controllers

C. O. Saglam and K. Byl
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation,
10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631393

Analysis and control techniques for the compass gait with a torso walking on stochastically rough terrain

M. Chen and K. Byl
Proceedings of the American Control Conference,
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